Prose
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Infinite Jest
The ur-text of this movement, though, is Wallace’s essay “E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction,” written in 1993. It’s a call for writing that transcends irony and detachment but, itself, comes drenched in both. The essay bemoans what Wallace saw as the near-impossibility of writing inventive, self-aware fiction in a television culture. He concludes by imagining some future group of “literary ‘rebels’ ” who would be “willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs . . .
Another Thing to Sort of Pin on David Foster Wallace
Orwell
Speculative
Lewis Carroll
The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a four-penny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb. The ding-dong of another, remoter clock--from the Prince of Wales, the other side of the street--rippled the stagnant air. Gordon made an effort, sat upright, and stowed his packet of cigarettes away in his inside pocket. He was perishing for a smoke.
Keep the Aspidistra Flying - Chapter 1
Toni Morrison - Nobel Lecture
Nobel Lecture December 7, 1993 Listen to an Audio Recording of Toni Morrison's Nobel Lecture * 33 min. "Once upon a time there was an old woman. Blind but wise." Or was it an old man?
